Quotes 121 till 140 of 963.
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
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By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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